In the Talmud, a person is only forgotten when his/her name is forgotten. Cologne-based artist Gunter Denmig began this project in 1992 to commemorate the lives of Holocaust victims and ensure that their names are not forgotten. These stolpersteine, or stumbling stones, are placed outside the last residence that a person freely lived in before deportation by the Nazis. This grouping looks like it commemorates five women (perhaps a mother and four daughters) who were murdered in Auschwitz.
I later found out that the Stolpersteine memorial project commemorates not only Jews, but also Sinti, Roma, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses and other politically persecuted victims under National Socialism.
STOLPERSTEINE have been placed in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and Hungary.
These particular stolpersteine are located in Ladenburg, Germany. Ladenburg is located approximately 50 miles south of Frankfurt and 9 miles northwest of Heidelberg.